Happy Kwanzaa!

Justified · Dec 26, 2002

The traditional celebration of what holiday and for who, started in 1966?

And celebrated by all around the world!

Happy New Year to all!

Jim1999 · Dec 26, 2002

Kwanza or rightly Cuanza is a river in West Africa. There is a holiday time, coming out of Africa, about this time of year, but I didn't think it was global.

Cheers,

Jim

LadyEagle · Dec 26, 2002

Oh, Justified, I wasn't gonna post this, but now here it is....you probably read the same article....heh!

Bits from the article:

Kwanzaa: A holiday from the FBI
Posted: December 24, 2002
3:30 p.m. Eastern
© 2002 Universal Press Syndicate

Trent Lott, call your office: Apparently some parts of American history can be sanitized and forgotten. Earlier this week, President George Bush issued a formal White House proclamation celebrating Kwanzaa.

Sounding like a "Saturday Night Live" send-up, Bush praised the "seven principles" of Kwanzaa, "known as Nguzo Saba," and discussed the "early harvest gatherings called 'matunda ya kwanza,' or first fruits." He included the usual claptrap about how Kwanzaa celebrates "traditional African values" and "uniting people of diverse backgrounds and beliefs."

It is a fact that Kwanzaa was invented in 1966 by a black radical FBI stooge, Ron Karenga, aka Dr. Maulana Karenga. Karenga was a founder of United Slaves, a violent nationalist rival to the Black Panthers and a dupe of the FBI.

In what was probably ultimately a foolish gamble, during the madness of the '60s, the FBI encouraged the most extreme black nationalist organizations in order to discredit and split the left. The more preposterous the organization, the better. Karenga's United Slaves was perfect. In the annals of the American '60s, Karenga was the Father Gapon, stooge of the czarist police.

Despite modern perceptions that blend all the black activists of the '60s, the Black Panthers did not hate whites. They did not seek armed revolution. Those were the precepts of Karenga's United Slaves. United Slaves were proto-fascists, walking around in dashikis, blowing away Black Panthers and adopting invented "African" names. (That was a big help to the black community: How many boys named "Jamal" currently sit on death row?)

Whether Karenga was a willing dupe, or just a dupe, remains unclear. Curiously, in a 1995 interview with Ethnic NewsWatch, Karenga matter-of-factly explained that the forces out to get O.J. Simpson for the "framed" murder of two whites included: "the FBI, the CIA, the State Department, Interpol, the Chicago Police Department" and so on. (He further noted that "the evidence was not strong enough to prohibit or eliminate unreasonable doubt" – an interesting standard of proof.) Karenga should know about FBI infiltration.

In the category of the-gentleman-doth-protest-too-much, back in the '70s, Karenga was quick to criticize rumors that black radicals were government-supported. When Nigerian newspapers claimed that some American black radicals were CIA operatives, Karenga leapt in to denounce the idea publicly, saying, "Africans must stop generalizing about the loyalties and motives of Afro-Americans, including the widespread suspicion of black Americans being CIA agents."

By now, there is no question that the FBI fueled the bloody rivalry between the Panthers and United Slaves. In one barbarous outburst, Karenga's United Slaves shot Black Panther Al "Bunchy" Carter on the UCLA campus. Karenga himself served time, a useful stepping-stone for his current position as a black studies professor at California State University at Long Beach.

Kwanzaa itself is a lunatic blend of schmaltzy '60s rhetoric, black racism and Marxism. Indeed, the seven "principles" of Kwanzaa praise collectivism in every possible arena of life – economics, work, personality, even litter removal. ("Kuumba: Everyone should strive to improve the community and make it more beautiful.") It takes a village to raise a police snitch.

When Karenga was asked to distinguish Kawaida, the philosophy underlying Kwanzaa, from "classical Marxism," he essentially explained that under Kawaida, we also hate whites. While taking the "best of" – I'm not making this up – "early Chinese and Cuban socialism," Kawaida practitioners believe one's racial identity "determines life conditions, life chances and self-understanding." There's an inclusive philosophy for you.

Coincidentally, the seven principles of Kwanzaa are the very same seven principles of the Symbionese Liberation Army, another charming invention of the Least-Great Generation. In 1974, Patricia Hearst, kidnap victim-cum-SLA revolutionary, posed next to the banner of her alleged captors, a seven-headed cobra. Each snake head stood for one of the SLA's revolutionary principles: Umojo, Kujichagulia, Ujima, Ujamaa, Nia, Kuumba and Imani – precisely the seven "principles" of Kwanzaa.

With his Kwanzaa greetings, President Bush is saluting the intellectual sibling of the Symbionese Liberation Army, killer of housewives and police. He is saluting the founder of United Slaves, who were such lunatics that they shot Panthers for not being sufficiently insane – all with the FBI as their covert ally. It's as if David Duke invented a holiday called "Anglica," and the president of the United States issued a presidential proclamation honoring the synthetic holiday. People might well stand up and take notice if that happened.

Kwanzaa was the result of a '60s psychosis grafted onto black community. Liberals have become so mesmerized by multicultural nonsense that they have forgotten the real history of Kwanzaa and United Slaves – the violence, the Marxism, the insanity. Most absurdly, for leftists anyway, is that they have forgotten the FBI's tacit encouragement of this murderous black nationalist cult founded by the father of Kwanzaa.

Now the "holiday" concocted by an FBI dupe is honored in a presidential proclamation calling it a "holiday that promotes mutual understanding." A movement that started approximately 2,000 years before Kwanzaa leaps well beyond merely "promot(ing) mutual understanding" to say we are all equal before God. It is so inclusive, people get mad at it. That movement is also celebrated this week. But the Christian leaders at the forefront of the abolitionist and civil rights movements have been washed down the memory hole.
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TheOliveBranch · Dec 26, 2002

And I thought it was a group of a certain ethnic persuation that sit around eating cookies.

Jim1999 · Dec 26, 2002

Sounding like a "Saturday Night Live" send-up, Bush praised the "seven principles" of Kwanzaa, "known as Nguzo Saba," and discussed the "early harvest gatherings called 'matunda ya kwanza,' or first fruits." He included the usual claptrap about how Kwanzaa celebrates "traditional African values" and "uniting people of diverse backgrounds and beliefs."
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It's not saying much for Mr. Bush, is it?

Cheers,

Jim

I am not sure whether this belongs in politics or the humour forums

Ps104_33 · Dec 26, 2002

A must read for those who want to know how it all started:

READ ABOUT KWANZAA .....CLICK HERE

TheOliveBranch · Dec 26, 2002

I just can't seem to believe that anyone will be treated as an equal until they stop looking at themselves as different. Christmas is "whitized"? Maybe because of the snow, or Santa's beard, but what black person did't participate in Christmas before this nonsense. Maybe a black Jew, or a Jehovah's witness.

So, when those chrities go around giving away free trees and gifts, are they only white people in line? You don't see hispanics crying out for a holiday of their own. Maybe they are given white status. Please...

Travis1980 · Dec 27, 2002

Originally posted by Jim1999:
Sounding like a "Saturday Night Live" send-up, Bush praised the "seven principles" of Kwanzaa, "known as Nguzo Saba," and discussed the "early harvest gatherings called 'matunda ya kwanza,' or first fruits." He included the usual claptrap about how Kwanzaa celebrates "traditional African values" and "uniting people of diverse backgrounds and beliefs."
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It's not saying much for Mr. Bush, is it?

Cheers,

Jim

I am not sure whether this belongs in politics or the humour forums
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It seems like thats all Bush does anymore is praise everyones "traditional values."

TheOliveBranch · Dec 27, 2002

He needs the Black vote.

jonmagee · Dec 27, 2002

As I ve not heard of Kwanzaa it cant be a global holiday

yours, Jon.

Son of Consolation · Dec 27, 2002

Very interesting! I was wondering about the holiday myself, and found it strange that it would take place alongside with Christmas...

bb_baptist · Dec 27, 2002

Many times we are lost in the wilderness of Racism and Euro-centricity. We need principles to guide us, to fulfill ourselves as African Americans. We pray that you will read and learn these principles, as well as make them part of your everyday life. - Rev. Gregory Jerome Jackson, Senior Pastor, Mount Olive Baptist Church, Hackensack, New Jersey.
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Wisdom Seeker · Dec 27, 2002

My son's teacher last year had the children study and write reports as well as do art projects for Kwanzaa last school year. I talked to him about it and he said "I wanted the kids to learn about something different, they have been inundated with Christmas every year since they were in Kindergarten"

It is my understanding that Kwanzaa is not a religious holiday, but takes place during what is considered a religious holiday season...Christmas.

I want my children to experience and learn about other cultures. I explained to my children that it is good for them to learn about other cultures.

In order to co-exist with each other, coming from a position of knowledge makes for better understanding.

[ December 27, 2002, 06:11 PM: Message edited by: WisdomSeeker ]

Wisdom Seeker · Dec 27, 2002

Originally posted by TheOliveBranch:
He needs the Black vote.
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He needs all the votes.

Justified · Dec 27, 2002

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